Inside the harmful TikTok hoax

This skeleton is out of the closet.

The “Skeleton Brunch” is the most recent TikTok development that by no means existed. Regardless of tweets referencing “Skeleton Brunch” and international retailers trying to elucidate the craze, there aren’t any TikToks devoted to the fake development.

Twitter customers have been sharing footage of skeletons seated round a desk set with brunch bites, however a fast search of “Skeleton Brunch” on TikTok solely results in outdated movies of Halloween-themed brunches.

In actuality, it appears some on the web have joined forces to make posers look ridiculous for pretending to be within the loop.

An altered picture from @meowmeowmeuw reveals an alleged Twitter DM from Rudy Giuliani asking somebody to “Skeleton Brunch?” earlier than responding “Fallacious individual. Ignore.”

One other pretend screenshot shared by @ProtonInspector appeared to point out a Folks.com headline titled, “Julia Fox says Kanye West ‘wouldn’t let her go to skeleton brunch’ and that ‘simply wasn’t going to work for her.”

Some individuals appeared keen to leap on the funny-bone development and expressed their pleasure over internet hosting or attending their very own “Skeleton Brunch.”

“We’re completely onboard with this #SkeletonBrunch development! Actually, we’re gonna deliver him to any #MardiGras2022 events we hit right this moment!” @hauntedafpod shared.

“Rattling this week sucks, can’t await skeleton brunch this weekend,” @beeblebronx tweeted.

A number of Twitter customers have even shared pictures of skeletons seeming to get pleasure from a pleasant boozy brunch or sipping a cup of espresso.

However whereas some web customers are prepared to participate in their very own model of the campy development, others are nonetheless questioning the boneheaded nonsense.

“I feel we have to get #SkeletonBrunch trending till we get a solution,” @CountPatagium insisted.

“What the f – – ok is skeleton brunch I would like it,” @zandsthaman tweeted.

“Guys please what’s skeleton brunch,” @kaleandcrawfish begged.

“Why aren’t I getting the Skeleton Brunch tik toks? I need to attend the Skeleton Brunch? Did my invitation get misplaced within the mail?” @FriendlyFangs questioned.

Some have even hinted on the supposed development being “harmful,” which has solely added to the confusion.

A tweet from @DoctorPenisBoob shared an altered picture exhibiting fabricated article headlines — resembling “What’s ‘Skeleton Brunch’ and how one can know in case your teen is in danger” and “TikTok warns teenagers towards harmful ‘Skeleton Brunch’ craze” — as in the event that they have been from tales revealed in The Publish, Insider and the Solar relationship again to 2021.

Some have attributed the pretend development to Twitter person @bear_wrongdoer who on Sunday tweeted, “*desperately making an attempt to think about a viral meme voice I’m going skeleton brunch.”

*desperately making an attempt to think about a viral meme voice

I am going skeleton brunch

— Care Bear Barney Felony🐻🦕 (@bear_wrongdoer) February 27, 2022

Their web page has since been flooded with tweets and retweets mentioning “Skeleton Brunch,” together with one the place they commented “Jig is up” on an article titled “‘Skeleton Brunch’ Isn’t Actual, However Possibly It Ought to Be.’

“Solely factor higher than individuals screaming ‘wtf is skeleton brunch’ is individuals who consider they know what skeleton brunch is about,” they tweeted on Tuesday.

When somebody requested what they have been lacking, @bear_wrongdoer gave up the bit, explaining, “It’s nothing, it’s not an actual development in any respect it’s simply saying skeleton brunch.”

However even when individuals aren’t truly having fun with brunch with a plastic skeleton, the inflow of tweets and curiosity surrounding “Skeleton Brunch” may very well be thought of a development itself, no bones about it.